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2 Flynn, T. T., ‘Contributions to a Knowledge of the Anatomy and Development of the Marsupiala [:] No. I. The Genitalia of Sarcophilus Satanicus’, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. xxxv, Part 4, 30 November 1910. [Issued 1 March 1911], p. 873.
3 Norman, Don, Errol Flynn: The Tasmanian Story, Hobart, W. N. Hurst & E. L. Metcalf, 1981, p. 4.
4 Flynn, Errol, op. cit., p. 24.
5 ibid., p. 104.
6 Jack Warner, quoted in Hollywood Be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers Story, by Cass Warner Sperling, Rocklin, CA, Prima, 1994, p. 195.
7 Flynn, Errol, op. cit., p. 168.
8 Warner, op. cit., p. xi.
9 ibid., p. 7 and p. 343.
10 Jones’ inspiration for the coyote—a scavenging carnivore—came from an earlier creative interpretation: ‘I first became interested in the Coyote while devouring Mark Twain’s Roughing It at the age of seven. I had heard of the coyote only in passing references from passing adults and thought of it—if I thought of it at all—as a sort of dissolute collie. As it turned out, that’s just about what a coyote is, and no one saw it more clearly than Mark Twain[:] “The coyote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth. He has a general slinking expression all over. The coyote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless . . . He does not mind going a hundred miles to breakfast, and a hundred and fifty to dinner, because he is sure to have three or four days between meals . . .”’ Jones, Chuck, Chuck Amuck: the Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989, pp. 34–5. (Twain visited the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 1897. He seemed to have difficulty identifying a Tasmanian devil and oddly referred to a highly predatory Tasmanian sheep-killing parrot that feasted only on its victims’ kidney fat. He presumably meant the Kea, a scavenging carniverous parrot found only in New Zealand.)
11 Sandler, Kevin S. (ed.), Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1998, p. 7.
12 Jones, op. cit., p. 109.
13 Beck, Jerry and Friedwald, Will, Warner Bros. Animation Art: the Characters, the Creators, the Limited Editions, Westport, CT, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc/WB Worldwide Publishing, 1997, pp. 74–5.
14 ibid., pp. 129–30.
15 www.errolflynn.net/Filmography, accessed 30 December 2003.
16 Bevilacqua, Simon, Sunday Tasmanian, 10 May 1998, p. 7.
17 Taz looks not unlike a very young devil, which has a disproportionately big head and tucked-in, obscure limbs.
18 Lenburg, Jeff, The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, 2nd edn, New York, Facts on File, 1999, p. 142.
19 Grant, John, Masters of Animation, London, BT Batsford, p. 154.
20 Jones, op. cit., pp. 92, 93.
Chapter 10
1 McCorry, Kevin, http://looney.toonzone.net/articles/tazarticle.html, accessed 14 June 2004.
2 Sandler, Kevin S. (ed.), Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner
Bros. Animation, New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1998, p. 177.
3 Bevilacqua, Simon, Sunday Tasmanian, 28 September 1997.
4 ibid., p. 6.
5 ibid., p. 7.
6 ibid., pp. 1, 6.
7 ibid., p. 6.
8 ibid., p. 6.
9 Sunday Tasmanian, 5 October 1997, p. 3.
10 ibid., pp. 14, 15, 45.
11 Hansard, 15 October 1997. Hobart, Parliament of Tasmania, October 1997.
12 Sunday Tasmanian, 10 May 1998, p. 3.
13 Hansard, 15 October 1997.
Chapter 11
1 Meredith, Louisa Anne, My Home in Tasmania, During a Residency of Nine Years, London, John Murray, 1852, p. 106.
2 Gould, John, Mammals of Australia, 1863, quoted in Joan M. Dixon (ed.), The Best of Gould’s Mammals, Sydney, Macmillan, (rev. edn) 1984, p. 44.
3 The Mercury, November 1910, p. 64.
4 Guiler, Eric R., ‘The Former Distribution and Decline of the Thylacine’, in The Australian Journal of Science, vol. 23, no. 7, 21 January 1961, p. 209.
5 Lord, Clive, ‘Notes on the Mammals of Tasmania’, op. cit., p. 45.
6 Lord, Clive, ‘Existing Tasmanian Marsupials’, op. cit., p. 22.
7 Lord, Clive E. and Scott, Herbert Hedley, A Synopsis of the Vertebrate Animals of Tasmania, [London], Oldham, Hobart, Beddome & Meredith, 1924, p. 267.
8 Flynn, T. T., ‘Report of Ralston Professor of Biology for the Year ending June 30th 1919’, p. 4. University of Tasmania, Morris Miller Library Special and Rare Collections.
9 Willoughby, Howard, Australian Pictures Drawn With Pen and Pencil, London, The Religious Tract Society, 1886, p. 182.
10 Brown, Bob, ‘Interview with Mr Lewis Stevenson, 69 Guy Street, Launceston’, 1 December 1972, Collection Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
11 The Mercury, 3 November 1910, p. 64.
12 Kelly, Androo, The Mercury, 1 September 2003, p. 11.
13 A more scientific definition of a retrovirus: ‘Viral insertion into host cell DNA can cause considerable disruption to the genome, and viral promoters can drive the transcription of cellular genes that may otherwise be inactive. A consequence of this lifecycle is the ability to trigger neoplasia [tumours] through insertional mutation or proto-oncogene [cancer-causing] activation. Some retroviruses, through faulty transcription, have also captured cellular oncogenes within their genomes and these oncogenes, when inserted into a new cell, may cause neoplastic transformation. Viral proteins of some retroviruses are also known to have immunosuppressive properties, although the precise mechanisms of immunosuppression are less well understood.’ Hanger, Jon, McKee, Jeff, Tarlington, Rachael and Yates, Amanda, ‘Cancer and Haematological Disease in Koalas: a Clinical and Virological Update’, p. 8. Paper presented at the Devil Facial Tumour Disease Workshop, Sir Raymond Ferrall Centre, University of Tasmania, Newnham, 14 October 2003.
14 The Mercury, 2 September 2003, p. 5.
15 ‘Research into the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD)[:] Progress Report’, Tasmania, Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment (DPIWE), January 2005, p. 5.
16 The Mercury, 2 September 2003, p. 16.
17 The Mercury, 9 September 2003, p. 14.
18 Sunday Tasmanian, 3 October 2004, pp. 1, 8.
19 ‘Research into the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD)[:] Progress Report’, op. cit., p. 27.
20 Loh, Dr Richmond, ‘Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) Facial Tumour (DFT)’, paper prepared for the 14 October 2003 workshop, p. 2.
21 DPIWE general manager Alex Schaap, quoted in The Mercury, 29 October 2003, p. 2.
22 Hansard, Parliament of Tasmania, 29 October 2003.
23 Tweety, the cute little baby-talking yellow canary, and Sylvester, the ugly big lisping black-and-white cat, first came together in 1947. Director Friz Freling ‘knew he had just united the Warner studio’s own dream team. From that point on, it was Bird vs. Cat in an almost uncountable number of episodes, a struggle that carried them across six decades and the farthest corners of the globe. And it was always Sylvester’s own deviousness and bad luck that did in him, while Tweety’s childlike innocence (and brutal sense of self-preservation) kept him out of the cat’s stomach.’ Beck, Jerry and Friedwald, Will, Warner Bros. Animation Art: the Characters, the Creators, the Limited Editions, Westport, CT, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc/WB Worldwide Publishing, 1997, pp. 115–6.
24 The Mercury, 13 April 2004, pp. 1–2.
25 The specialists: Menna Jones (evolutionary ecology and conservation of marsupial carnivores); Heather Hesterman (wildlife and captive breeding programs); Clare Hawkins (carnivorous mammals, Madagascan fossa ecology); Jason Wiersma (predatory birds, critical habi
tat surveys, Fox Taskforce, developer of the infra-red camera); Billie Lazenby (habitat assessments, small mammal ecology, Fox Taskforce, compiler of hair atlas of Tasmanian wildlife); Stephen Pyecroft (veterinary pathologist, Mount Pleasant group leader); Richmond Loh (veterinary pathologist, Murdoch University); Robyn Sharpe (veterinary pathologist); Nolan Fox (DNA repair mechanism related to human tumours); Ann Maree Pearce (genetics, dasyurids and cytogenetics).
26 Pemberton, David, ‘Devil Facial Tumour: Tasmanian Devil Survey, Table Mountain, Bothwell, January 2004’, p. 4. [unpublished field notes]
27 Scammell, Dr Marcus, ‘Environmental Problems [in] Georges Bay, Tasmania. Collated by Dr Marcus Scammell from information gathered, in particular, between February 2004 to June 2004’, http://www.tfic.com.au/scammell_report_07.04.htm, accessed 11 September 2004.
28 Jim Bacon, quoted in The Mercury, 3 September 2003, p. 3.
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David Owen is the author of nine novels, most of which are set in Tasmania. He is the editor of the Australian literary journal Island and the author of Thylacine: The Tragic tale of the Tasmanian Tiger.
David Pemberton is the Vertebrate Curator at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. He is co-author of the book Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: Seabirds and other natural features and over forty scientific publications on subjects as varied as Australopithicene cave deposits and the diet of giant squid.